I've seen the name Ginger used among the villagers, but never Algy.
I imagine that few, if any, other players of VV2 will understand the above remark, so perhaps I ought to explain. You had to be a boy in the UK around the same time as I was. The Biggles books were a long series of boys' adventure stories written by WE Johns between the 1930s and 1960s. The hero, Biggles, was a pilot who fought in both the First and Second World Wars; his two great friends were named Ginger and Algy. See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggles